CN109477051A - Fluid filter system with integrated discharge function - Google Patents

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CN109477051A
CN109477051A CN201780040581.3A CN201780040581A CN109477051A CN 109477051 A CN109477051 A CN 109477051A CN 201780040581 A CN201780040581 A CN 201780040581A CN 109477051 A CN109477051 A CN 109477051A
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Abstract

Fluid filter system of the invention includes: bioreactor;Filter is configured to filter the liquid passed through from it;Charge pump is configured between the bioreactor and the filter mobile liquid;Liquid line provides the fluid communication between the bioreactor, the charge pump and the filter;And exhaust outlet, it is arranged on the liquid line, the exhaust outlet is configured to provide the mode for selectively removing liquid from system under the movement of the charge pump.Using fluid filter system of the invention, filtering and discharge function can carry out under the movement individually pumped, thereby dramatically reduce the complexity and cost of required component.

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Fluid filter system with integrated discharge function
Invention field
The present invention relates to the fluid filter system for filtering liquid, the liquid is for example accommodated in bioreactor Cell culture.
Background of invention
System for filtering liquid is well known in the art, wherein they using have separation, concentration or Remove many different forms of the exemplary functions of the component of liquid, mixture or suspension.Such system is applied to biology To extract certain biologics in technology and pharmaceuticals industry, such as the albumen generated in bioreactor using cell culture Matter.
In traditional batch feed bioreactor system, cell batch culture, thus cell inoculation to fresh cultured In base, and cell quickly enters growth period, they consume culture medium nutriment and in addition to dividing during this growth period Except the target protein secreted, Waste buildup is in culture.Over time, become, cell transits to stationary phase, then by It exhausts in cell culture into the decline phase.In end of run, divide using protein as a batch from cell culture clock From.The problem of such system, especially in the case where usually having the animal cell culture compared with poor efficiency, being can be with The limited yield of the purpose biologic of realization.
It is known alternative system that bioreactor, which is perfused, and wherein cell keeps supplementing culture simultaneously in culture Base provides the required biologic of higher yields so that maintaining high cell concentration in longer time section.In order to tie up Keep steady fixed cell culture condition, needs to filter with the purification of certain ingredients for cell culture medium, selective removal and dense Contracting allows to supplement cell culture with fresh culture and can remove used culture medium.
The representative filtration systems that use are using pump in perfusion bioreactor, by filter by cell culture from life It removes in object reactor, is removed from system including the filtrate of waste or target product, and the delay including living cells Object is back to bioreactor.Individual system supplementing culture medium nutrients be may then pass through to maintain cell culture Stable equilibrium state.Such prior-art devices generally use tangential flow filtration, and wherein most feeding flow tangentially passes through The surface of filter.Such a system provides a kind of mild filter method, this method will not make fragile zooblast by The very big power of cell may be damaged.In addition, liquid pass through filter tangential flow ensure in filter may cause it is stifled The deposit of plug is flushed away during the filtration process, increases the time span of filtration system sustainable operation.Such system can be with It is arranged so that the flowing of liquid on a direction around circuit, cycles through filter from bioreactor and is back to (it is referred to as generic term " tangential flow filtration " or TFF) to bioreactor.Or such arrangement can be used, wherein only making With the singular association between bioreactor and filter and flow direction replaces, so that liquid is marched to from bioreactor Filter and along identical route back to bioreactor (referred to as " alternately tangential flow filtration " or ATF).
In such perfusion system, once required cell density is realized in bioreactor vessel, it may be desirable to Prevent its rising higher.In order to provide this function, the system of the prior art is generallyd use by periodically or with restriction Cell culture is given off system to reduce the mode of cell density by flow velocity.Flow velocity can be selected based on growth rate to incite somebody to action Cell density is limited to desired value.Realize discharge usually using dip-tube, by the dip-tube, individual pump (such as only Peristaltic pump for this purpose) movement under cell culture is removed from bioreactor.
This known emptying pump arrangement has several drawbacks in that.Increasing by the second pump especially to provide discharge function and increase is The cost and complexity of system.Other than common filter process, it, which is also added, required manually controls degree or control row The level and complexity of automation needed for playing function.In addition, this arrangement needs the additional port in bioreactor, It increases the pollution risk of cell culture and increases the quantity for the component that must be sterilized between use.
Therefore, for provide selectively emigrated cells culture mode with keep the cheap of required cell density and There are demands for perfusion filter system easy to implement.Being further desirable to the system reduces pollution present in prior art systems Possibility, and reduce the complexity and/or required manual intervention degree of automation.It would also be desirable to provide a kind of simple discharge system System, which can integrate in automated system, and can use under two kinds of operation modes of ATF and TFF, and hardly It needs or does not need to be adjusted system.
Summary of the invention
The present invention is intended to provide a kind of filtration system, has simple design, reduce suitable and disposable The quantity and complexity for the component that system is used together.The automation of component also should be simple, to reduce required manual intervention Degree, and eliminate the demand to complex control system.Another important goal be reduce bioreactor on port number with A possibility that reducing pollution.
According to the first aspect of the invention, the fluid filter system 100 for cell culture fluid to be perfused is provided, is wrapped Include: bioreactor 130 is used to accommodate cell culture fluid;Filter 140, be disposed for filtering pass through from it is thin Born of the same parents' culture solution;Charge pump 110 is configured between the bioreactor 130 and the filter 140 mobile cell culture Liquid;Liquid line 150 provides the fluid communication between the bioreactor 130, charge pump 110 and filter 140;With And exhaust outlet 180, it is arranged on the liquid line 150, the exhaust outlet 180 is configured to provide in the charge pump From the mode of the system 100 selectively emigrated cells culture solution under 110 movement.
Using fluid filter system according to the present invention, filtering and discharge function can under the movement individually pumped into Row, thus the complexity and cost of component needed for significantly reducing.Which also reduces the components that may need to sterilize between use Quantity, reduce downtime, make it possible higher output.Further, since exhaust outlet setting is in pump and life On liquid line between object reactor, therefore the additional port on bioreactor is not needed, therefore significantly reduce A possibility that pollution for the cell culture being accommodated therein.It can be by under the regular event of pump according to the system of this system Exhaust outlet is opened to automate in a simple manner to remove liquid.
Certain embodiments of the present invention provides the fluid filter system for cell culture to be perfused comprising: injection Pump comprising gas chamber and removable plunger, wherein the gas chamber has in the hole of first end, and the plunger exists Sealing is formed in the inner wall of the chamber;Liquid chamber, there are two opening, the openings to be located at the opposite of the chamber for tool End, and the first opening is connected to the hole of the gas chamber;Bioreactor is opened with the second of the liquid chamber Mouth is in fluid communication;Filter is arranged to filter the liquid passed through between the bioreactor and the liquid chamber, institute Stating filter includes the permeant outlet for removing filtered liquid;Wherein the plunger is to cause mutually meeting the tendency of for gas Dynamic reciprocating motion and it is moveable, the corresponding sports of the gas are handed between the liquid chamber and the bioreactor Liquid is alternately driven, so that liquid passes through the filter, and filtered liquid can be removed via the permeant outlet Body, the system further comprise exhaust outlet 180, and the exhaust outlet 180 is configured to provide and select under the movement of charge pump Selecting property from the mode of the 100 emigrated cells culture of system.
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Embodiments of the present invention only will be described with reference to the drawings by embodiment now, in which:
Figure 1A schematically shows the first embodiment of fluid filter system of the invention;It can be with alternately tangential mistake The operation of filter mode;
Figure 1B schematically shows the embodiment of fluid filter system of the invention, can be with wherein liquid in circuit The tangential flow filtration mode of middle circulation operates;
Fig. 2 schematically shows the embodiments of liquid of the invention filtering, are incorporated to two valves to provide exhaust outlet;
Fig. 3 schematically shows another embodiment of fluid filter system of the invention, in filter and biology Syringe pump and exhaust outlet are incorporated between reactor.
Fig. 4 schematically shows another embodiments of fluid filter system of the invention, in liquid return line On be incorporated to folder valve and exhaust outlet;And
Fig. 5 schematically shows another embodiment of fluid filter system of the invention, is configured to provide ATF simultaneously Exhaust outlet is incorporated on the liquid return line from second liquid chamber.
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It is described below in attached drawing, describes certain embodiments of the present invention.It will be appreciated, however, that the present invention is unlimited In described embodiment, and some embodiments can not include all features described below.However, it will be apparent that Be, without departing substantially from wider range of spirit and scope of the invention described in appended claims, can herein into Row various modifications and change.
Figure 1A and Figure 1B is shown respectively with the sheet of alternately tangential flow filtration (ATF) mode and tangential flow filtration (TFF) mode The operating principle of the fluid filter system 100 of invention.Fluid filter system 100 includes charge pump 110,130 and of bioreactor Filter 140, wherein charge pump is configured to move liquid from bioreactor 140 by filter 140 via liquid line 150 Out, the liquid line 150 provide between bioreactor 130, filter 140 and charge pump 110 needed for fluidly connect.Institute Stating filtration system further comprises the exhaust outlet 180 being arranged on liquid line 150.The exhaust outlet 180 is configured to permit Perhaps liquid is selectively removed from system 100 so that under normal operation when liquid under the movement of charge pump along liquid line When road is mobile, the exhaust outlet 180 can be opened, so that liquid is pumped out the system 100.
In the exemplary arrangement of Figure 1A and Figure 1B, exhaust outlet 180 is arranged to the outlet 180 on charge pump 110, but It is at any point that it can be placed on liquid line 150.Permeant outlet 141 is also shown in embodiment shown in Fig. 1, Filtered penetrant can be removed from filter 140 by the permeant outlet 141.External penetration pump 142 can be used Filtered penetrants are extracted in passing through the outlet 141, and are existed as the well known elements separated with perfusion and discharge function Except the present invention.
With use independent liquid line (such as dip-tube, the liquid under the movement of the second pump into bioreactor 130 Exhaust through system) prior art systems it is different, present invention only requires single pumps to provide filling of the liquid by filter Note and discharge function.
Figure 1A, which is shown, to be arranged to provide the system of the invention of ATF, wherein the movement pumped is alternately, so that liquid flow The direction for crossing filter periodically inverts.Therefore, liquid is along the single liquid between bioreactor 130 and filter 140 Body route 150, which moves back and forth, to be passed through filter 140 to pump 110 and returns.In this embodiment, exhaust outlet is set as charge pump Additional outlet on 180, liquid can by the egress selection be transferred out from system 100, rather than pass through liquid Body route 150 returns.This can for example be achieved in that when such pump direction makes influence liquid be back to biology instead Answer device 130 it is mobile when, open pump 110 on port liquid is guided out system.
Figure 1B is shown in which that component is arranged to and provides the system of the invention of TFF, and wherein circuit is provided with liquid line Road 150, liquid can recycle between bioreactor 130, filter 140 and pump 110 around the circuit, so that liquid is with single Direction is mobile to pass through filter 140.Equally, in this embodiment, exhaust outlet 180 is set as additionally going out on charge pump 110 Mouthful.As described above, charge pump 110 is used to drive the liquid around liquid line anti-from biology during the normal use of system It answers device 130 to pass through filter 140 and is back to bioreactor 130.When needing to discharge, such as in order to stablize cell culture In cell density, the exhaust outlet 180 on pump can be opened, so that liquid is directed out system rather than continues around liquid Route 150 recycles.
Fig. 2 schematically shows a kind of plain modes that wherein discharge function can be controlled;It is shown in this figure The case where example T FF system of Figure 1B.In this embodiment, the first folder valve 181 is arranged on exhaust outlet 180, and the Two folder valves are arranged in a part of the liquid line 150 after following charge pump 110 in liquid flow direction closely.In system 100 Normal operating during, the first folder valve 181 is closed, and the second folder valve 182 is opened, so that charge pump is for being driven around liquid The liquid in 150 circuit of route, so that liquid passes through filter 140 and can remove penetrant.When needs are removed from system When liquid, such as in order to reduce cell density, valve 182 can be pressed from both sides by second on closing liquid route and opens exhaust outlet On the first folder valve 181 carry out emissions operation so that by exhaust outlet 180 by liquid under the regular event of charge pump 110 Body is transferred out of system.Liquid flows in and out bioreactor 130 by the way that recirculation circuit is perfused, therefore can independently control Pass through the flow of exhaust outlet 180.
Fig. 3, which is shown, is configured to provide another embodiment of the filtration system of the invention of ATF filter process.In the cloth In setting, liquid is driven by the syringe pump 110 including plunger 112 and gas chamber 111, wherein the inner wall shape of plunger and chamber 111 Pass through chamber 111 at sealing and being configured to movement air is discharged by the hole 113 for being located at one end.Plunger 12 can be installed On piston rod 114, needed for the piston rod 114 drives along the long axis setting of chamber 111 and by motor 115 to provide Alternating movement.Hole at one end of gas chamber 111 and liquid chamber 120 are in fluid communication, the liquid chamber 120 again with mistake Filter 140 and bioreactor 130 connect.Therefore, appearance is passed to by the alternating movement of the gas of the movement driving of plunger 112 The liquid being contained in liquid chamber 120, to be handed between bioreactor 130 and liquid chamber 120 along liquid line 150 The liquid is alternately driven, so that it passes through filter 140.Therefore, the direction of liquid replaces with the movement of plunger 112 in system. The movement in plunger 112 towards hole 113 causes gas to enter liquid chamber, drives fluids through filter to bioreactor, and And plunger 112 causes gas to exit liquid chamber 120 far from the movement in the hole, so that liquid is mobile from bioreactor 130 By filter 140 to fill liquid chamber 120.
Different from the embodiment of front, exhaust outlet 180 is not arranged on pump 110 in the system of figure 3, but is arranged On liquid line 150 between filter 140 and bioreactor 130.Exhaust outlet 180 can be simply by filter Band valve interconnecting piece in liquid line 150 between 140 and bioreactor 130 provides.Liquid line, which is divided into, is back to biology The first line 152 of reactor 130 and the second drain line 183 for being guided out system.It can be again by the row of being separately positioned on The first folder valve 181 and the second folder valve 182 on the returning part of unwrapping wire road 183 and liquid line 152 discharge to simply implement Function.The opening and closing of folder valve 181,182 can mutually be cooperateed with the movement of charge pump.The system for filtering liquid just It is often used down, closes the first folder valve 181 and opens the second folder valve 182, so that liquid is along fluid chamber under the movement of pump 110 Liquid line 150 between room 120 and bioreactor 130 is mobile by filter 140.When needs remove liquid from system When, the first folder valve 181 on drain line 183 is opened, and the second folder valve on the returning part 152 of closing liquid route 150 182.When plunger 112 is mobile towards hole 113, liquid is along liquid line 150 and pumping-out line 183 from 120 quilt of liquid chamber It drives and leaves system.Valve can be cooperateed with the movement of pump, so that only when the plunger of pump 112 is mobile towards hole 113, the row of opening Unwrapping wire road 183 (and closing return line 152).As all embodiments of the invention, exhaust outlet 180 and pump 110 Collaborative Control can be provided manually by user or be automatically provided by the configuration of external control system.
It is different to provide the prior art systems of discharge function from wherein needing individually to pump, again in this arrangement In, it does not need to provide the additional pump or external cellular moving-out device for being exclusively used in discharging the system.
Fig. 4 shows the another exemplary filtration system of the offer TFF of deployment cost invention.The system of Fig. 4 is similar to Fig. 3 Arrangement be incorporated with syringe pump 110, but the difference is that the second hole 213 is located at the phase in gas chamber 111 with the first hole 113 At opposite end.Piston rod 114 is " through rod " axially across chamber 111, and wherein plunger 112 is placed on the middle section of bar 114, So that it is alternately mobile by chamber 111 between opposite first end and second end.Due to the first hole 113 and the second hole 213 are located near the opposite both ends of chamber 111, therefore gas is discharged by a hole, while being inhaled into another hole.The One hole 113 and the second hole 213 can be respectively connected to the first liquid chamber 120 and second liquid chamber 220, respectively to be similar to Mode described in reference diagram 3 connects.Therefore the movement of plunger 112 leads to the liquid being contained in liquid chamber 120,220 By 122,222 discharge of opening, while liquid is inhaled into chamber 220,120 by the opening of another liquid chamber.
Fig. 4 also show liquid chamber 120,220 how can be connected to filter 140 and bioreactor 130 with Continuous pouring is provided in TFF arrangement.There are interconnecting pieces in the liquid line for the opening 122,222 for leaving each chamber, so that Each chamber is divided into two lines road, is connected to the inlet line 153,253 of main fluid intake route 151 and is connected to main liquid and returns The egress line 154,254 on loop line road 152.Inlet line 153,253 and egress line are opened and closed by using valve system 160 Road 154,254 controls the flowing of the liquid between liquid chamber and the rest part of system.In this embodiment, valve system by Multiple flow control valves 162,163 (such as other folder valves) provide, with the flowing of the liquid in control system.With plunger 112 It is moved to the right side of chamber 111, first flow control valve 162 is open, and second flow control valve 163 is to close. Then liquid is drawn through intake route 151 via filter 140 from bioreactor and passes through entrance 153 into the first liquid Chamber.
Liquid is discharged by being connected to the outlet 254 of the second liquid chamber of liquid return line 152 simultaneously, returns liquid It is back to bioreactor 130.It is then shut off first flow control valve 162 and opens second flow control valve 163, while plunger 112 are moved to the left towards the first end of chamber 111.Therefore, liquid is extracted out from bioreactor 130, simultaneously by filter 140 Enter second liquid chamber 220 via inlet line 253.Liquid passes through 154 row of egress line of the first liquid chamber 120 simultaneously It is back to bioreactor out and via return line 152.By the operation and the syringe pump 110 that make flow control valve 162 and 163 Movement it is synchronous, effective no pulse continuous T FF may be implemented.
Similar to the arrangement of Fig. 3, for the ease of the discharge of system, band valve interconnecting piece is provided in return line 152, it will Liquid chamber 120,220 is connect with bioreactor.As described above, the first branch in connection return line 152 is so as to just Liquid is often back to bioreactor 130 under operation, fluid is guided out system by drain line 183 by another branch. Branch in return line 152 may be provided with the first folder valve 181 and the second folder valve 182, the first folder valve 181 and the second folder valve 182 can open and close route to control discharge function.In the normal operation period, it closes the first drain line and presss from both sides valve 181, and Open the second return line folder valve 182.When discharging cell, opens drain line folder valve 181 and close return line folder valve 182, so that liquid is released liquid chamber and passes through exhaust outlet 183 by the movement of syringe pump, rather than it is back to biological respinse Device container 130.It is different from the embodiment of Fig. 3, in the arrangement of Fig. 4, regardless of syringe pump direction can be carried out cell row It puts, because the two sides of gas chamber 111 are connected to liquid chamber 120,220, so that for two movement sides of plunger 112 To liquid is driven all along return line 152.
The arrangement of Fig. 4 additionally provides other functions.During perfusion, liquid constantly extracts (penetrant) out from system, And it is supplemented by increasing culture medium conveying.Two kinds of pump rates are all controlled, but in prolonged experiment, if The flow velocity Incomplete matching of penetrant and pump, then the culture volume in bioreactor 130 can change.Ensure to cultivate object A kind of method for not declining of product be constantly by culture medium overfeeding into bioreactor 130, and periodically by cell from It is discharged in bioreactor 130.This can use the movement reversal flow control of Fig. 4 being arranged through first relative to plunger 111 The sequence of valve 162,163 is realized.By configuring flow control valve 162,163 in this way, in the movement of charge pump 110 Under, liquid is extracted from bioreactor 130 by the first liquid chamber 120 and second liquid chamber by liquid return line 152 In room 220.After removing liquid in bioreactor 130, the first folder valve can opened by liquid return line 152 181 and the second folder valve 182 is closed, while restoring the normal sequence of flow control valve 162,163 and charge pump 110, so that liquid System is moved out of by drain line 183 under the movement of charge pump 110.
There is the 152 (example of return line of the fixed height h of the interior substrate 131 more than bioreactor 130 by providing Such as in the form of dip-tube), liquid can be extracted by return line 152, until it reaches being somebody's turn to do in bioreactor 130 Known level h.Or, thus it is possible to vary the length of return line in bioreactor allows to adjust the end of return line 152 The distance between the substrate of portion 153 and bioreactor 131 h.In this way, when as described above by return line 152 from When bioreactor 130 removes liquid, the known altitude h that liquid level can be adjusted in bioreactor 130.
Fig. 5 shows another embodiment, using the revision of the arrangement of Fig. 4, is configured to provide for ATF rather than TFF. With latter arrangement, syringe pump 110 has the first hole 113 and the second hole 213 in the opposite end of gas chamber 111, described Hole is respectively connected to the first liquid chamber 120 and second liquid chamber 220.In this arrangement, the first liquid chamber 120 via Filter 140 is connected to bioreactor 130 by liquid line 151, alternately drives liquid by the liquid line 151 To provide ATF.Second liquid chamber 220 is connected to bioreactor 130 via exhaust outlet 180.It, can be with using this arrangement Implement two different discharge process.
It is possible, firstly, to integrated cell discharge is provided during filtering, wherein when liquid is discharged from liquid chamber 120, First flow control valve 164 is closed, and opens second flow control valve, open simultaneously discharge folder valve 181 and closes the line of return Road presss from both sides valve 182, so that liquid is directed out exhaust outlet 183.Alternatively, may be implemented it is independent be emitted into liquid level, passing through row Liquid is simply pumped into second liquid chamber from bioreactor 130 using second liquid chamber 220 before the discharge of discharge port 180 In room, and repeat until reaching required liquid level.
In more detail, by closing second flow control valve 165, first flow control valve 164 and mobile plunger are opened 112, with before being returned liquid along liquid line 151 by filter and returning to bioreactor 130, by liquid from life Object reactor 130 is alternately pumped into the first liquid chamber 120 by filter 140 and provides ATF.In order to provide integrated row Playing function presss from both sides valve 164 and 182 by closing, opens valve 165 and 181, then pass through when liquid is discharged from the first liquid chamber First liquid chamber 120 is emptied by check-valves 168, liquid is guided out exhaust outlet.Check-valves 168 makes to stay in pipe branch Discharge cell " dead volume " minimize, and prevent discharge cell any " reflux ", the cell of the discharge time Stream can pollute the cell culture that the remainder of the first liquid chamber 120 is flowed in and out from perfusion filter device 140.Check-valves It is not used in the flow direction of control ATF perfusion functional.
It is emitted into liquid level in order to provide, (when the arrangement is configured for TFF, has and uses using dip-tube 152 Make the additional functionality of return line 152).Second liquid chamber 220 is via open return line valve 182 (and 165 He of valve 181 close) cell culture is extracted from the dip-tube 152 of shortening.Then pass through closing valve 182 and open drain valve 181 to arrange Empty second liquid chamber 220.The process is repeated, until other no liquid can be drawn in upper dip-tube, because liquid level is Drop to the end of pipe or less.Therefore, the amount of liquid in bioreactor can be adjusted and return in bioreactor 130 The liquid level of height h.
The embodiment of the present invention may further include one or more sensors 190, one or more of sensors 190 are configured as one or more parameters of sensing system.Although the sensor 190 in Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 is arranged to sensing one Or the external sensor of the liquid level in multiple liquid chambers 120,220, but can additionally be incorporated to and be configured to sensing such as cell The sensor of the other parameters of density, cell viability and pressure.As described above, the movement of plunger, motor and flow control Control with the sequence of folder valve can be carried out manually by user or be carried out automatically by control unit.Control unit can permit planning ATF, TFF, cell discharge and the required stage of Liquid level.The control of above-mentioned various operations can also automate, in response to passing Sensor sensing data and control various functions.For example, when sensing is statistics indicate that cell density rises to over predetermined threshold When, control system can start cell discharge to reduce cell density, until reaching as what sensor was measured scheduled connects By level.Can control exhaust outlet so that liquid outflow system can be it is continuous or periodic.
In all above-described embodiments of the invention, the pipeline for being formed together liquid line with folder valve be can be set can be more In the box changed.For example, labware needs six roots of sensation pipeline correct by four folder valves in the embodiment of Fig. 4 and Fig. 5 Wiring.In order to eliminate a possibility that operator mistakes, and the task of operator is made to become very easy, pipeline is preloaded into one In secondary property box, the box is the component part of the labware.Operator need to only load box and (spend several seconds Simple task), steadily and correctly to carry out all necessary connections.
In all above-described embodiments of the invention, entire product contact path (that is, directly contacted with cell culture Component) it can be the disposable of the single use including the labware.The labware is designed to make Technical ability needed for bioreactor 130 and perfusion filter device 140 are connected to machine and time minimize, the machine transfer tube (while keeping sterile) carries out all environment, deflation, charging, stirring, circulation and sensing function needed for the process to realize.Pump 110 can be the fixed part of the machine in itself, do not need to clean or sterilize, and can be via the collection in labware At sterilizing filter be connected to the labware.Cell culture is not passed through mechanical pump (for example, diaphragm, impeller or compacted Dynamic, cell can be destroyed)-by the way that cell culture is sucked out from bioreactor 130, by perfusion filter device 140, Then it " blows " and is back in reactor 130, or by filter 140 (" ATF ") or via individual return line 152 (" TFF ") returns to realize flowing.Mere contact with cell culture is sterile tube and other disposable modelings being intended for single use Expect component and clean filtered air.
For ATF or TFF, normal perfusion function needs only one liquid chamber.However, by using second chamber, it is right Cell culture is passed through into perfusion filter from the suction of bioreactor 130 simultaneously in " quasi-continuous " flowing-that TFF may be implemented Device 140 enters in a liquid chamber 120, and the cell culture from previous circulation can be returned from second liquid chamber 202 To bioreactor 130.
In general, perfusion experiment sustainable 30 to 60 days, cell culture is continuously flowed into and trickle chamber.Even if chamber The material (such as polypropylene) of room has low-surface-energy, and cell culture is not easy to be bound to surface, but prolonged In experiment, cell culture can start to accumulate on chamber wall.Volume in chamber can be decreased to unacceptable low by this Level, and/or may potentially have an adverse effect to the cell for flowing into chamber.Fluorination work can be used on liquid chamber Surface polymer is effectively changed into PTFE by skill, to reduce the cell combination on fluid chamber locular wall.
Using fluid filter system of the invention, simple low cost arrangement is provided for promoting cell to discharge.With need Want the prior art systems of additional pump for the emigrated cells culture from bioreactor different, as use of the present invention Arrangement: it wherein can use charge pump the movement extracting liq from system.It reduce it is relevant to additional pump is incorporated at This and complexity, and further reduced the chance of failure and between operation to equipment sterilize required shutdown when Between.Different from prior art systems, system of the invention does not need the additional port of bioreactor, therefore the possibility polluted Property further decreases.In addition, user's degree of participation or the degree of automation needed for reducing control filtering and discharge function, because These can be provided by controlling single pump and relevant valve.Arrangement of the invention, which additionally provides, to be adjusted in bioreactor Liquid level mode, increase with reduce quantity component additional function.

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1. the fluid filter system (100) for cell culture to be perfused, comprising:
Bioreactor (130), is used to accommodate cell culture fluid;
Filter (140) is configured to filter the cell culture fluid passed through from it;
Charge pump (110) is configured between the bioreactor (130) and the filter (140) mobile cell training Nutrient solution;
Liquid line (150) provides the bioreactor (130), the charge pump (110) and the filter (140) Between fluid communication;And
Exhaust outlet (180) is arranged on the liquid line (150), and the exhaust outlet (180) is configured to provide in institute It states under the movement of charge pump (110) from the mode of the system (100) selectively emigrated cells culture solution.
2. fluid filter system as described in claim 1, wherein the exhaust outlet is by additional in the charge pump (110) Outlet provide.
3. fluid filter system as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein the exhaust outlet (180) further comprises
First folder valve (181), is configured to selectively open and close the exhaust outlet.
4. fluid filter system as claimed in claim 3 further comprises relevant second folder valve (182), second folder Valve is configured to close the liquid line (150) when first folder valve (181) is opened.
5. fluid filter system as described in any one of the preceding claims, further comprises
One or more sensors (190), one or more of sensors (190) are configured to measure the liquid in the system One or more parameters.
6. fluid filter system as claimed in claim 5, wherein the parameter sensed by one or more of sensors (190) Including one of the following or multiple:
Liquid level, pressure, cell density, cell viability.
7. fluid filter system as described in any one of the preceding claims, wherein the liquid line (150) includes
Fluid intake route (151) extracts cell from the bioreactor (130) by the fluid intake route (151) Culture solution;And
Cell culture fluid is back to the biological respinse by the liquid return line (152) by liquid return line (152) Device (130);Wherein
The fluid intake route (151) and liquid return line (152) provide together the connection bioreactor (130), The circuit of the filter (140) and the charge pump (110), during use, under the movement of the charge pump (110), Cell culture fluid is flowed around the circuit.
8. fluid filter system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the exhaust outlet is arranged in the liquid return line (152) on.
9. fluid filter system as claimed in claim 7 or 8, wherein the liquid line of return in the bioreactor The end (153) on road (152) and the substrate (131) of the bioreactor separate specific height (h).
10. fluid filter system as claimed in claim 9, wherein the charge pump (110) is configured to by from the biology The liquid via the liquid return line (152) emigrated cells culture solution and is guided out the discharge by reactor (130) (180) are exported selectively to invert the circulation of the cell culture fluid in the system, thus by the bioreactor (130) In liquid level be adjusted to specific height (h).
11. the method for emigrated cells culture solution from fluid filter system, the system comprises:
Bioreactor (130), is used to accommodate cell culture fluid;
Filter (140) is configured to filter the cell culture fluid passed through from it;
Charge pump (110) is configured between the bioreactor and the filter mobile cell culture fluid;
Liquid line (150) provides the bioreactor (130), the charge pump (110) and the filter (140) Between fluid communication;And
Exhaust outlet (180) is arranged on the liquid line (150), and the exhaust outlet (180) is configured to provide from institute With the stating Systematic selection mode of emigrated cells culture solution;The described method includes:
The charge pump (110) are operated, so that cell culture fluid passes through the filter via the liquid line (150) are mobile (140);
The exhaust outlet (180) are opened, so that the cell culture fluid is under the movement of the charge pump (110) from the liquid Body route removes;
The exhaust outlet (180) are closed after the cell culture fluid for removing requirement in the system.
12. method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the system further comprises:
First folder valve (181), is configured to open and close the exhaust outlet (180);
Second folder valve (182), is configured to open and close the liquid line (150);The method further includes:
It opens first folder valve (181) and closes second folder valve (182), so that cell culture fluid is directed out the row Discharge port (180).
13. the method as described in claim 11 or 12, wherein the system further comprises:
Fluid intake route (151), by the fluid intake route (151) from institute under the movement of the charge pump (110) It states bioreactor (130) and extracts cell culture fluid;And
Liquid return line (152), will be thin under the movement of the charge pump (110) by the liquid return line (152) Born of the same parents' culture solution is back to the bioreactor (130), the liquid return line in the bioreactor (130) (152) substrate (131) of end (153) and the bioreactor (130) separates specific height (h);Wherein
The fluid intake route (151) and liquid return line (152) provide together the connection bioreactor (130), The circuit of the filter (140) and the charge pump (110), during use, under the movement of the charge pump (110), Liquid is flowed around the circuit;And
The exhaust outlet (180) is arranged on the liquid return line;
The method further includes:
When second folder valve (182) is opened, the movement of the charge pump (110) is inverted, so that cell culture fluid passes through institute It states liquid return line (152) to be extracted from the bioreactor (130), until liquid level is reduced to the specific height (h);
It closes second folder valve (182) and opens the first folder valve;And
The movement of the charge pump (110) is reset, so that liquid is transferred out of the row under the movement of the charge pump (110) Discharge port (180).
14. the method as described in any one of claim 11 to 13, the fluid filter system further comprises:
One or more sensors (190), one or more of sensors (190) are configured to sensing and the liquid in the system The relevant one or more parameters of body;The method further includes:
The exhaust outlet (180) is opened and closed according to the parameter sensed by one or more of sensors (190).
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